What is the core purpose of your blog? What is the number one thing you’d like the blog to do for people?
When choosing a design or theme for wordpress, it’s important to keep in mind what the main focus is of our blog.
Typically a design process starts with a bunch of people adding what they want to see to the design. Everyone gets their little ‘piece’ of the page. At the end, you’re left with what little space is left for the main content of the page.
Hold on there, honcho! That is completely bass-ackwards!
So what do you do?
Use Epicenter Design.
Start with the thing that means the most of the page first. Then the second. Then the 3rd. Build around your goals, don’t sacrifice your goals for a flashy new navigation bar because guess what? Unless your goal is to show people how great your navigation bar is, it should be pretty low on your list.
I use Mockingbird to do wireframe mockups of any web presence, including a blog, that I build. I’m not a designer, I’m not a web programmer. Rather, I know the purpose and goal of my web presence and I am the leader.
So, play around with it and see what you come up with. By sticking with epicenter design and leaving out unneeded features, you’ll be surprised just how simple, intuitive, and clean your blog or web page can become.
